Meghan O'Rourke

Poet, critic, and editor Meghan O’Rourke will read from her work and discuss careers in editing. Halflife, O’Rourke’s first book of poems, was published to wide acclaim in 2008. The New York Times praised her ability to “distinguish intelligence from chatter, to discern a path to the authentic.” ... (more)Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New Republic, the Yale Review, and the New York Times Book Review. O’Rourke began her editorial career at the New Yorker in 1997. In 2002, she became culture editor for Slate, and since 2005, she has served as a poetry editor at the Paris Review. Sponsored by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation.